Re-Engineering the Development of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach Program in the Schools Division of Quezon

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The current paper investigated the use of communicative language teaching (CLT) in teaching English in the Division of Quezon as a basis for a comprehensive CLT-based language teaching program. The study focused on the communicative competence of the Grades 7 to 10 junior high school students. The researcher also believed that as ESL learners, Filipinos experience many difficulties in communication using the English language. It is necessary to address the problems so that the communicative features of language learning may be developed and enhanced to become effective user of the English language. The researcher targeted to identify the common communication problems of the students so that she would be able to address them properly in order to achieve and master the target learning competencies in terms of oral communication relative to the four important components of communicative language teaching (CLT) approach.

METHODS

Descriptive research design was employed considering no experiments were conducted in the course of the study. This study tried to describe the percentage distribution of the competencies focusing on their mastery level. The level of competence for each strand or feature of CLT was assessed through oral communication activities rated by the researcher using the improvised checklist on performance.

RESULTS

The respondents discourse competence is fairly satisfactory; learners' discourse competence needs to be improved; the respondents' socio-cultural competence attained a qualitative description of fairly satisfactory; and there are numbers of problems and challenges experienced by both the teachers and the students inside the English classroom. Teachers may have provided solutions to problems but are still found to be incomplete and insufficient to address the merging problems concerning verbal repertoire.

DISCUSSIONS

Language learners of Department of Education Quezon are diverse in nature especially in terms of age and sex. The learners of Department of Education Quezon were fairly satisfactory in terms of their performance in the target verbal repertoire, entailing that they still have to enhance their skills in terms of the communicative language perspectives. A number of problems had been identified and had to be addressed to satisfy the demands of the national curriculum and competency. The proposed language situation, planning and policy program was developed which may be adopt by Department of Education Quezon to enhance the lingually and verbal repertoire of the learners.